Thanks Jerry- Would be interesting to see if this is the result of a bug I filed with the product group on behalf of a poster to this list related to how they were querying AD. Darren From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cruz, Jerome L Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 3:49 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] MS Releases GPMC Speed-Up Fix for Vista and W2KOcho Didn’t see this posted or discussed yet. MS Posted this KB article on December 16th, 2008. I just completed testing today. Results of installing this hotfix are reasonably ‘Great!’ from my perspective. (We have ~ 2,300 GPOS). On computers that are running Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1, RSAT GPMC has long delays in domain environments that have many GPOs Article ID: 959438 - Last Review: December 16, 2008 - Revision: 1.0 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=959438 Test results launching GPMC from a virtual location using Vista 32 bit + SP1 + RSAT device. Prior to Hotfix Starting GPMC: Averaged 1 min – 32 seconds Switching GPOs while on Scope tab: Averaged 36 seconds to display data Delegation tab and Click on Advanced button: Averaged 1 min 42 secs After Installing the Hotfix Starting GPMC: Averaged 36 seconds ç Awesome! Switching GPOs while on Scope tab: Averaged 4 seconds to display data ç Great! Delegation tab and Click on Advanced button: Averaged 1 min 36 secs ç No significant change, so MS take a look at this next. Jerry Cruz | Group Policies Product Manager | Windows Infrastructure Architecture | CNO | Boeing IT